Well, I'd think that Terry Gilliam, Darren Aronofsky and Paul Greengrass would be shoe-ins as well. And I'd love to hear what Joss Whedon would have to say about Watchmen. I also heard that Damon Lindelof of "Lost" fame is a Watchmen fan.

It would be fun to have Bill "Jett" Ramey from Batman-On-Film stop by, and I wonder if there are any successful webcomic artists (Mike "Gabe" Krahulik, Jerry "Tycho" Holkins, Tatsuya Ishida, etc.) who are familiar enough with Watchmen to post here.

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He's probably one of the biggest fans! My paperback has praise on the back where the blurb would be...he calls it "the greatest piece of popular fiction ever produced"....

Yep, that would be cool, although I think he is of the opinion that Watchmen is better off not being adapted to film. Then again, as a huge Lost fan myself (maybe even bigger than Watchmen) I'd still be interested in his take. Especially when seeing the nods to the book he's put into the show.

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I'd be cool with that too .

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Well, I posted a short explanation in another thread when I first returned, but I guess not everybody is reading all the threads all the time.

I was busy taking my IB tests, graduating from high school, and moving down to Florida. Then I was off in Orlando for a bit, and I've had to work out my college scholarships and shopping. So, not a whole lot of time for posting, unfortunately. But, now I'm back for at least a month! College doesn't start until 8/20.

Steve Moore, so we can possibly get an explanation why and how a friend of Alan's gets the job of writing the novelization to the poorly adapted movie version of the awesome and mind-blowing comic book V for Vendetta.

John Byrne, so I can call him an asshole to his e-face. Trendy, I know, but sometimes I can't help myself.

Chiwetel Ejiofor (FIrefly, Children of Men) is a huge Watchmen fan. He's one of my favourite actors and I was surprised to hear just what a fan he was. He has the same concerns about the film as a lot of others do. I think he'd have a blast here!

I don't know if this was posted here, but here's a link to the interview.

Here's the relevant part. It's interesting that his last thought echoes Zack's in the Time article, that people and studios don't go about writing graphic novels just to turn them into movies, that they have value on their own.

Ejiofor: Yes, that's the thing. There always needs to be the progression. The real advantages, of course, that these things have an in-built audience, which is why the studios are interested. So they have people who are just going to go and see. I'm going to see Watchmen, because it is an important document in my life because I remember the first time I read it, and I was like wow, that's amazing. And it changed my attitude towards the way that literature and graphic novelization could work. It seemed incredibly sophisticated to me. It is really exceptionally imaginative and it felt like an epic movie and a real leap, as well as one thing he did in that book was I think that the way that it was drawn was incredibly cinematic with sort of voiceovers and over-layering on different shots and these sort of characters coming in and out of the piece and the building and the sense of tension and a real sense of narrative and a complicated narrative story structure, and who is the bad guy and what is going to happen.

And, as well, these kind of extraordinary kinds of landscapes in the film, not just the cities but, then this sort of ending playing out in Antarctica and this kind of sense of it being beautiful and bleak. And then there is just the sense of the historic context of it all and the very dynamic history lesson within it all and the Kennedy, "who watches the Watchmen" assertation, and you just felt that there was a lot of that involved in this story as well as, actually, the discussions of physics with Dr. Manhattan - kind of nuclear physics and how that was progressing in the kind of ideas of Einstein. If I had known, I would have become a Watchman, this sense that there was just something that was very heartfelt and very intense about it and a real reflection of the contemporary world. So, as you can tell, I am a fan of Watchmen, so I am excited to see the movie.

Ejiofor: Sure. Yes, I think it can– and I heard that there are… I hope it doesn't - my only worry is that it doesn't become a way of making it into a film, that it still maintains its own original form… That people don't go towards making graphic novels in order to basically write a storyboard for a movie. You know, that it still holds its own sort of imaginative place. Otherwise, it could just kind of dry up, but I really hope that doesn't happen so that we can have another generation of the likes of From Hell or Watchmen or, they don't even necessarily have to become movies, but just to still kind of be there. That's completely different to what we started off talking about.